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⚡ WHAT'S AT STAKE TODAY ⚡
- 🤖💰 ChatGPT rolls out ads
- 🏦📈 Anthropic closes in on $20B round
- 👔🔄 Workday CEO Eschenbach departs, with co-founder Aneel Bhusri returning as CEO
- 🌍⚔️ Anthropic's India expansion collides with a local company that already had the name
- 📊🤖 Databricks CEO says SaaS isn't dead, but AI will soon make it irrelevant
- 😰🔥 The first signs of burnout are coming from the people who embrace AI the most
- ⚕️⚠️ Doctors warn against dangers of health misinformation from AI sources
- 📚👨🏫 AI in classrooms: Why teachers say humans still matter
- 🔧📹 Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data
OpenAI begins testing ads for free and budget ChatGPT users
ChatGPT rolls out ads
OpenAI has officially launched its controversial advertising experiment, beginning to test ads in ChatGPT for U.S. users on Free and Go subscription plans. The Go plan, priced at $8 monthly, was introduced globally in mid-January as a budget-friendly option between free and premium tiers.
Premium subscribers using Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans will remain ad-free, maintaining their uninterrupted experience. This tiered approach reflects OpenAI's strategy to monetize its vast free user base while preserving premium value for paying customers.
In response to widespread user concerns, OpenAI emphasized that advertisements won't influence ChatGPT's responses. The company stated: "Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you, and we keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers." They positioned this move as supporting "broader access to more powerful ChatGPT features while maintaining trust."
The timing proved particularly awkward following Anthropic's brutal Super Bowl advertising campaign. The rival AI company mocked OpenAI's advertising plans through commercials featuring robotic actors delivering advice interrupted by poorly targeted ads. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded defensively, calling Anthropic's ads "dishonest" and labeling the company "authoritarian."
This isn't OpenAI's first advertising misstep. The company faced significant backlash late last year when testing app suggestions that users perceived as unwanted advertisements. However, revenue generation remains crucial for covering massive development costs and business expansion.
OpenAI's advertising system will use contextual matching based on conversation topics, chat history, and previous ad interactions. Users researching recipes might see grocery delivery or meal kit advertisements. The company promises advertisers will only receive aggregate performance data like views and clicks, not personal user information.
To address privacy concerns, OpenAI implemented several user controls. Users can view their ad interaction history, clear it anytime, dismiss advertisements, provide feedback, understand why specific ads appeared, and manage personalization settings. These features aim to give users greater control over their advertising experience.
The company established strict content boundaries for advertising placement. Ads won't appear for users under 18 or near sensitive topics including health, politics, or mental health discussions. All advertisements will be clearly labeled as sponsored content and visually separated from ChatGPT's organic responses.
Despite OpenAI's assurances about ad optimization being based on "what's most helpful," critics remain skeptical about potential influence on AI responses. The fundamental concern is whether commercial interests might subtly shape ChatGPT's supposedly neutral advice and information.
Consumer resistance to AI advertising remains strong, reflecting broader concerns about commercializing AI assistance. Users worry that advertising could compromise the perceived objectivity and trustworthiness that makes ChatGPT valuable for important personal and professional tasks.
This advertising rollout represents a pivotal moment for AI monetization. OpenAI's approach of maintaining ad-free premium tiers while introducing advertising to free and budget users creates a clear value proposition. Success or failure of this model will likely influence how other AI companies approach similar revenue challenges in the increasingly competitive artificial intelligence landscape.
🔍 Which AI Dilemma Should We Tackle First?
- ⚠️ 1. Speed vs. Understanding The rapid pace of AI development is outpacing our ability to comprehend or regulate it.
- 🧠 2. Lack of Alignment AI systems don’t necessarily optimize for what’s good for humans—even when they seem to.
- 🏢 3. Power Concentration AI is consolidating power into the hands of a few tech giants and governments.
- 🤖 4. Automation Without Purpose AI is replacing jobs faster than society is creating meaningful alternatives.
- 🛑 5. Loss of Human Agency We risk becoming passive consumers of AI decisions, losing creativity and independent thinking.
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Anthropic nears massive $20B funding round at $350B valuation
Anthropic closes in on $20B round
Anthropic is finalizing a $20 billion funding round at a $350 billion valuation, doubling their initial target due to high investor demand. The AI company previously raised $13 billion just five months ago but seeks more capital amid intense competition and rising compute costs.
Major investors include Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, with strategic partners Nvidia and Microsoft providing the bulk of funding. Anthropic's recent successes include popular coding agents and new legal research models that disrupted traditional data firms' stock prices.
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⚡ Trends for the Future
Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data
Former Google employees launch InfiniMind to transform unused video into business intelligence.
Companies worldwide are drowning in video data. From broadcast archives to security cameras and production footage, most of this content sits unused on servers as "dark data" - a massive untapped resource that organizations collect but rarely analyze meaningfully.
Two former Google Japan employees, CEO Aza Kai and COO Hiraku Yanagita, recognized this challenge after spending nearly a decade together at the tech giant. In 2024, they co-founded InfiniMind, a Tokyo-based startup developing infrastructure to convert petabytes of unviewed video and audio into structured, queryable business data.
"We saw this inflection point coming while we were still at Google," Kai explained. The breakthrough came from advances in vision-language models between 2021 and 2023, which moved video AI beyond simple object tagging to understanding narratives, causality, and complex content relationships.
InfiniMind recently raised $5.8 million in seed funding led by UTEC, with participation from CX2, Headline Asia, Chiba Dojo, and an AI researcher at a16z Scout. The company is relocating its headquarters to the U.S. while maintaining operations in Japan.
Their first product, TV Pulse, launched in Japan in April 2025, analyzing television content in real-time to track product exposure, brand presence, and customer sentiment for media and retail companies. The platform already serves paying customers including wholesalers and major broadcasters.
The flagship product DeepFrame, capable of processing 200 hours of footage to pinpoint specific scenes, speakers, or events, enters beta in March with full launch planned for April 2026. Unlike competitors focusing on general-purpose APIs, InfiniMind targets enterprise use cases including monitoring, safety, and security analysis.
"Our solution requires no code and integrates audio, sound, and speech understanding, not just visuals," Kai said. "Cost efficiency is a major differentiator - we can handle unlimited video length while solving the cost challenges most existing solutions ignore."
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Sergey Levine is a professor at UC Berkeley and a leading researcher in robot learning and reinforcement learning, where his work has enabled robots to learn complex skills through deep learning and large-scale data collection. His pioneering research in end-to-end learning for robotics and his contributions to making AI systems more capable of handling real-world tasks have advanced both academic understanding and practical applications, and he continues to advocate for developing intelligent machines that can adapt to diverse environments and augment human capabilities.
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